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59
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10944
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National Ranking
21

Overview

Simon K. Davy is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their main fields of study include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Ecology, Oceanography, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, and Immunology as subfields.

Their research primarily explores topics related to coral and marine ecosystems, marine and coastal plant biology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine sponges and natural products, marine biology and ecology research, microbial community ecology and physiology, and protist diversity and phylogeny.

Simon K. Davy has contributed to multiple publications, with some recent notable papers including:

  • The Molecular Language of the Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis (2020) published in Trends in Microbiology
  • Coral holobiont cues prime Endozoicomonas for a symbiotic lifestyle (2022) published in The ISME Journal
  • Triggers, cascades, and endpoints: connecting the dots of coral bleaching mechanisms (2024) published in Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Building consensus around the assessment and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity (2023) published in PeerJ
  • The diversity and ecology of Symbiodiniaceae: A traits-based review (2022) published in Advances in marine biology

Frequent publication venues for Simon K. Davy include:

  • Coral Reefs
  • The ISME Journal
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Journal of Experimental Biology

Simon K. Davy collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Clinton A. Oakley
  • Virginia M. Weis
  • Arthur Grossman
  • David J. Suggett
  • James J. Bell

Best Publications

  • The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing

    Patrick J. Keeling;Patrick J. Keeling;Fabien Burki;Heather M. Wilcox;Bassem Allam

  • Cell Biology of Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis

    Simon K. Davy;Denis Allemand;Virginia M. Weis

  • Cell biology in model systems as the key to understanding corals

    Virginia M. Weis;Simon K. Davy;Ove Hoegh-Guldberg;Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty

  • Could some coral reefs become sponge reefs as our climate changes

    James J. Bell;Simon K. Davy;Timothy Jones;Michael W. Taylor

  • The Biology of Coral Reefs

    Charles R. C. Sheppard;Simon K. Davy;Graham M. Pilling

  • Optimal nutrient exchange and immune responses operate in partner specificity in the cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis.

    Jennifer L. Matthews;Camerron M. Crowder;Clinton A. Oakley;Adrian Lutz

  • Temperate and tropical algal-sea anemone symbioses

    Gisèle Muller‐Parker;Simon K. Davy

  • Coral holobiont cues prime Endozoicomonas for a symbiotic lifestyle

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  • Differential coral bleaching—Contrasting the activity and response of enzymatic antioxidants in symbiotic partners under thermal stress

    Thomas Krueger;Thomas Krueger;Thomas D. Hawkins;Thomas D. Hawkins;Susanne Becker;Stefanie Pontasch

  • Cell Biology of Coral Bleaching

    C. A. Oakley;S. K. Davy

  • The Molecular Language of the Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis.

    Sabrina L. Rosset;Clinton A. Oakley;Christine Ferrier-Pagès;David J. Suggett

  • Partner switching and metabolic flux in a model cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis

    Jennifer L Matthews;Clinton A Oakley;Adrian Lutz;Katie E Hillyer

  • Symbiosis induces widespread changes in the proteome of the model cnidarian Aiptasia.

    Clinton A. Oakley;Michael F. Ameismeier;Lifeng Peng;Virginia M. Weis

  • Menthol-induced bleaching rapidly and effectively provides experimental aposymbiotic sea anemones (Aiptasia sp.) for symbiosis investigations.

    Jennifer L. Matthews;Ashley E. Sproles;Clinton A. Oakley;Arthur R. Grossman

  • Predictive modeling of coral disease distribution within a reef system.

    Gareth J. Williams;Greta S. Aeby;Rebecca O. M. Cowie;Simon K. Davy

  • An enemy within? Observations of virus-like particles in reef corals.

    W. H. Wilson;A. L. Dale;J. E. Davy;S. K. Davy

  • Temperature induction of viruses in symbiotic dinoflagellates

    William H. Wilson;Isobel Francis;Keith Ryan;Simon K. Davy

  • Metabolite profiling of symbiont and host during thermal stress and bleaching in the coral Acropora aspera

    Katie E. Hillyer;Daniel A. Dias;Adrian Lutz;Shaun P. Wilkinson

  • Growth anomalies on the coral genera Acropora and Porites are strongly associated with host density and human population size across the Indo-Pacific.

    Greta S. Aeby;Gareth J. Williams;Gareth J. Williams;Erik C. Franklin;Jessica Haapkyla

  • Horizontal transmission of Symbiodinium cells between adult and juvenile corals is aided by benthic sediment

    Matthew R. Nitschke;Simon K. Davy;Selina Ward

  • Mucus Sugar Content Shapes the Bacterial Community Structure in Thermally Stressed Acropora muricata.

    Sonny T. M. Lee;Simon K. Davy;Sen-Lin Tang;Paul S. Kench

  • Viruses: agents of coral disease?

    S. K. Davy;S. G. Burchett;A. L. Dale;P. R. Davies

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Bell
James J. Bell Victoria University of Wellington
Virginia M. Weis
Virginia M. Weis Oregon State University
Gareth J. Williams
Gareth J. Williams Bangor University
Charles Sheppard
Charles Sheppard University of Warwick
Arthur R. Grossman
Arthur R. Grossman Carnegie Institution for Science
Greta S. Aeby
Greta S. Aeby Qatar University
Andrew J. Martin
Andrew J. Martin University of New South Wales
Ute Roessner
Ute Roessner University of Melbourne
Nicole S. Webster
Nicole S. Webster University of Queensland
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg University of Queensland

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